Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-12

election, signed oy not less than fifty
qualified voters If for county election,
or by not less than twenty if for any
other, the commissioners court shall, at
it's first regular session after the filing of
such petition with the clerk thereof, order
another election for the same purpose,
which election shall be ordered held,
notice thereof given, the votes returned
and counted, and the result declared and
published, in all respects as provided by
this title for first election, and the order
granting such other election, as well as
that declaring the result. shall, if prohi
bition be carried, have the sane force and
effect, snd the same c0nclusiveness, as,
are given to them in the case of first
election by the provision of this title.s
Art. 1888. The failure to carry pro-
hibitiOn in county shall not prevent an
election for the same from being imme-
dia.ely thereafter held III Justices pre-
cinct, town or city of said county; nor
shall the failure to carry prohibition in q
town or city prevent an election from be
ing Immediately thereafter held for the
entire justices precinct or county in
which such city or town is situated; nor
shall the holding Of an election in 8
justices precinct in any way prevent the
holding of an election immedi6teIy there
after for the entire county in which such
Justices precinct is situated. But when
prohibition has been carried at an cleo
ton ordered for the entire county, no
election on the question of prohibition
shall be thereafter ordered in any Just
ices precinct, town or city of said
county until after prohibition has been
defeated at a subsequent election for the
same purpose, ordered and held tor the
entire county, in accordance with the
provisions of this title, nor in any case
where prohibition has carried in any
Justices precinct shall an election on the
question Of prohibition be ordered there
after in any town or city in such precinct
until after prohibition has been defeated
at a subsequent election ordered and held
for such entire precincr.
Art. 3239d. At any time within thirty
days after the result of the election has
been declared any qualified voter of the
county, Justices precinct, town or city in
which such election has been held, may
contest the said election in any court of
competent Jurisdiction in such manner as
has been or may hereafter be provided;
and should it appear from the evidence
that the election was illegally or fraudu-
lently conducted, or that by the action,
or want OF action, on the part Of the
officers to whom was entrusted the con-
troll of such election, such number of
legal voters were denied the privilege of
voting, as, had they been allowed to vote,
might have materially changed the result;
or, it it appears from the evidence that
such irregularities existed as to render
the true result of the election impossible
to be arrived at, or very doubtful of as
certaining, the court shall adjudge such
election to be void, and shall order the
proper officers to order another election
to be held, and shall cause certified
copy of such judgment and order of the
court to be delivered to such officer upon
whom is deVolved by law the duty of
ordering such cleo ion.